Finding vouchers - Real Mum story on MoM

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I am not that good with tackling paper work and it tends to pile up and so I move the pile to a place where I will sort later. Later usually means in a month or two.. By which time the paperwork is out of date and most of it goes in the bin! Why I can’t throw it away first I don’t know!! Anyway I was having a tidy up of some paperwork (long over due) and came across some birthday vouchers my child was given from various shops. It was exciting to suddenly find these and like his birthday all over again! So this weekend we will look forward to going out shopping and using them so I don’t get them lost again under the masses of paper work!

Posted anonymously, 15th May 2014

30 Comments

- - My little Button said
  - 02 Feb 2023
    11:51 am
Its surprising of what you can find after a clean up I have found coins and money which is a plus its like a big reward for finally doing that clean up

- - mom112217 said
  - 28 Oct 2016
    1:02 pm
This has happen to me and it is so good as you have spending money to play with!

- - mom111362 said
  - 17 Jul 2015
    11:16 pm
that’s great. have fun shopping

- - mom94125 said
  - 08 Jun 2015
    2:16 pm
that is a great find. i bet it was a fun trip!

- - mom93821 said
  - 15 Jan 2015
    7:37 pm
Good find; hope you had fun using them.

- - pakeko said
  - 31 Oct 2014
    9:44 pm
You are lucky they have not expired have fun shopping

- - mom57522 said
  - 31 Oct 2014
    1:21 pm
My kids won’t let me forget when they get shopping vouchers!

- - no1ladydj said
  - 30 Jun 2014
    12:12 am
I got a couple of birthday cards last year with some money in them, and I “put them somewhere safe” so I wouldn’t lose them. Needless to say I couldn’t find them when I went looking for them. But I found them just before Christmas, and the money came in very handy.

- - fruitwood said
  - 16 Jun 2014
    3:07 pm
What an awesome find. I love finding things that I put “somewhere safe” and then forgot about, lol.

- - 3timesamum said
  - 08 Jun 2014
    2:07 pm
A lovely surprise to find the vouchers again. It’s like Christmas to go shopping with them.

- - scottie said
  - 31 May 2014
    9:30 pm
It’s like a bonus for sorting the paperwork pile

- - katelt said
  - 30 May 2014
    7:53 am
Lol – I do the same! Except for some obscure reason I stack them in the linen cupboard with the intention of going through them, but I never do!

- - lou3 said
  - 29 May 2014
    10:10 am
I hate sorting through mess aswell, and what a reward to find something other than bills lol, sometime its best to do it straight away so it dont build up

- - coppin85 said
  - 28 May 2014
    2:18 pm
it is exciting when you find something like this (other than bills)

- - twinmum2 said
  - 22 May 2014
    3:52 pm
Birthday vouchers are nice treats from various stores. My children love getting them in he post around their birthday time.

- - meimei said
  - 21 May 2014
    5:17 pm
Lucky you find them. Happy shopping

- - catgrrl3 said
  - 20 May 2014
    7:04 pm
wooooo hoooooo would have felt like a little win I bet.

- - shareem said
  - 18 May 2014
    9:57 pm
I used to do the same – and still fall back into old habits on some busy weeks. Now I try to get through the mail each day and only set aside things I need to attend to, note any specials I want to buy and have a zip lock bag on the side of my fridge for vouchers which we go through weekly for expiry dates etc (usually on a Friday night when trying to find a pizza voucher).

- - Starlight said
  - 18 May 2014
    6:18 pm
I’m a thrower, if something is missing I always get blamed for throwing it.

- - Kelly said
  - 17 May 2014
    9:32 pm
My husband calls me the paperwork hoarder lol I’m the same always making a pile of letters or junk mail thinking i will go through it later but like you later never comes lol

Bonus on finding the gift cards tho and especially before they ran out.